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☆ Trump’s new Supreme Court gambit doesn’t even try to hide that it’s a delaying tactic
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-13 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Donald Trump’s filing to the Supreme Court over his claim for sweeping presidential immunity begins with a quote from Yogi Berra. The coming days could decide when the first Trump trial takes placeThe text of Trump’s filing to the court at times feels somewhat frivolous. Trump’s legal team has a good reason to try to run out the clock. But it is not certain that the Supreme Court, which last week heard oral arguments on another Trump case — over his expulsion from Colorado’s ballot — will even agree to take his latest request. As with Smith’s Washington case, Trump’s team is seeking to delay the trial currently scheduled for May.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Yogi Berra, Jack Smith, Trump, Ty Cobb, CNN’s Erin Burnett, “, ”, Joe Biden, he’s, Elie Honig, Donald Trump, Jack Smith’s, Honig, Norm Eisen, ” Eisen, Smith, Ankush, CNN’s Wolf, Smith’s, Stormy Daniels, —, Fani Willis, Willis, – Organizations: New York Yankees, White, NBC News, Trump, Biden, CNN, Justice Department, Trump Organization Locations: White, Florida, Smith’s Washington, Manhattan, Georgia, New York

☆ Bobbi Brown is still living a life of luxury and lipstick — and it's all on her own terms
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Bobbi Brown is a beauty icon with two major makeup brands. But through it all, Bobbi Brown has never budged from her status as a beauty icon. Bobbi Brown on set for Jones Road. It's hard to describe," Brown told BI, though she notes that "no one" does the "no-makeup" look better than her brand. According to SimilarWeb, a software company that analyzes internet traffic, the Jones Road site reached more than 850,000 visits in November 2023.

Persons: Bobbi Brown, Brown, —, Yogi Berra, Estée Lauder, freebies, Becca Cosmetics, James Charles, Ben Ritter, Jones, Cody Plofker, Plofker, There's, it's, SimilarWeb, she's, that's, Bobbi Organizations: Business, Service, Scholastic, Brands, Jones, Athletic Greens, Ikea Locations: Montclair , New Jersey, New York, Montclair, TikTok, New Jersey, London

☆ How Haley could eclipse DeSantis to become the Trump alternative
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Ron Brownstein | Analysis Ronald Brownstein | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +16 min

But many Republican strategists believe that DeSantis’ struggles to connect with voters, and his choice to run at Trump solely from the right, have opened a lane for Haley to eclipse the Florida governor. An array of recent polls, both nationally and in the battleground states, signal that DeSantis and Haley have separated themselves from the rest of the candidates chasing Trump. “Absolutely, Nikki Haley has more upside than DeSantis if they are both viable after the first two,” argued Alex Stroman, a former executive director of the South Carolina GOP. DeSantis, Ayres argued, has “has tried to appeal to some of the ‘always Trump’ voters, but the ‘always Trump’ voters are always Trump for a reason. Nikki Haley seems to have figured out the job is to consolidate the ‘maybe Trump’ voters who supported Trump twice but now … want a different style and different temperament.”Republicans sympathetic to DeSantis argue that it is Haley who has boxed herself in.

Persons: Donald Trump’s, Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley, Trump, “ You’ve, ”, Tom Rath, Donald Trump, DeSantis, Haley, Republican pollster Whit Ayres, Alice Stewart, Chris Christie, Vivek Ramaswamy, South Carolina Sen, Tim Scott, Scott, Mike Huckabee, Rick Santorum, Ted Cruz, Kim Reynolds, Huckabee, Santorum, Cruz, John McCain, Mitt Romney, ’, Ayres, Rath, George W, Bush, “, ” Dante Scala –, –, Scala, GOPers, ” Haley, McCain, Linus, ‘, ’ ”, he’s, Newt Gingrich, Alex Stroman, DeSantis “, ” Ayres, Ayres ’ “, tellingly, MAGA —, dethroning, ” Scala, Mike Murphy, who’s, Joe Biden, ” Murphy, There’s, Sen, Gary Hart parlayed, Hart, Walter Mondale, Chris Sununu, DeSantis ’, Yogi Berra, ” Rath Organizations: CNN, GOP, Florida Gov, South Carolina Gov, ”, Republicans, Trump, Republican, Washington Post, New, New Jersey Gov, South, Huckabee, New Hampshire GOP, University of New, Romney, South Carolina GOP, “, dethroning Trump, Democratic Locations: Florida, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Iowa, New Jersey, Granite State, University of New Hampshire, After New Hampshire, Gaza, DeSantis, Haley, Iowa , New Hampshire

☆ The End (of Summer) Is Nigh. Let’s Enjoy It!
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Joshua Needelman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Here’s the bad news: On Aug. 11, the sun in New York City set at 8 p.m. It will not set that late again until 2024. That doesn’t mean that it’s time to bring out the seasonal affective disorder lamps: summer doesn’t end until Sept. 23. But take the approaching end of the season as extra motivation to savor these last few weeks before temperatures dip and sunlight is at a premium. As the New York Yankee great Yogi Berra once said, “It ain’t over till it’s over.” See family and friends during the Labor Day weekend, and then squeeze everything you can out of these final weeks.

Persons: Yogi Berra Organizations: New York Yankee, Labor Locations: New York City

☆ Thieves’ Loot: A Warhol, a Pollock and 9 of Berra’s World Series Rings
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Eduardo Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

An alarm at the International Boxing Hall of Fame in Canastota, N.Y., blared at about 2 a.m. on a fall morning in 2015, prompting its director to drive to the building and learn that culprits had broken in and stolen six championship belts from the ’40s and ’50s. “Who could do this to a hall of fame museum?” Edward Brophy asked police officers. Blood from one of the thieves appeared to drip from the splintered glass of a window they had broken in through. Mr. Brophy recalled thinking at the time: Maybe that would help investigators find the culprits. Nearly a decade later, it did.

Persons: ” Edward Brophy, Brophy, Andy Warhol, Yogi Berra, — Organizations: International Boxing Hall of Fame, Federal, New York Yankees Locations: Canastota, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania , New Jersey , New York , Massachusetts, North Dakota

☆ Yogi Berra: ‘It Ain’t Over’ documentary reassesses baseball great’s remarkable career and life
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Don Riddell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Yogi Berra famously said “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over,” but one of the greatest careers in baseball history might have been over before it had even begun. He was injured during the attack, he pulled bodies out of the water, and he learned that in comparison to war, baseball would be easy. In a file photo -- September 28, 1955 -- Jackie Robinson (R) is safe under an attempted out by Yankee catcher Yogi Berra, on a steal home from third. I don’t think anything that anyone said or wrote took any of that joy away from him. I don’t think Grandpa meant to be a civil rights activist,” explained Lindsay, “He just did the right thing.

Persons: Yogi Berra, Berra, ”, Lindsay, “, Bob Costas, Granny Hamner, Don Larsen, Billy Crystal, Yogi, ” Berra, Joe Di Maggio, Mickey Mantle –, Jackie Robinson, Frank Kellert, Larry Berra, Barack Obama, Alex Wong, ” Lindsay, ’, ‘ we’re, ’ ”, “ There’s, grandpa, ESPN’s, he’d, Grandpa, you’ve, Jon Matlack, Robinson, “ Grandpa, Jackie, Kathy Willens Organizations: CNN, Yankee, Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, AP, Life Magazine, Bettmann, American, Observers, Dodgers, Getty, White, Mets, ” New York Yankees Hall of Fame, Toronto Blue Jays, Steinbrenner, “ Locations: Normandy, American, New York, Washington , DC, Europe, ”, Tampa , Fla, Maryland

☆ Yogi Berra on the Field: The Case for Baseball Greatness
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-08 | by ( Lorne Manly | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the latest edition of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, there’s a sports figure who towers over the competition. Among the nine sayings attributed to one Lawrence Peter Berra, the New York Yankees catcher better known as Yogi, are phrases that may seem nonsensical at first, but on further reflection offer wisdom for the ages. “You can observe a lot by watching.”“It was déjà vu all over again.”And of course, there’s “It ain’t over till it’s over,” which provides the title for a new documentary about Yogi’s life. “It Ain’t Over” aims to be a corrective to the caricature implanted in the cultural consciousness of Yogi as an amiable clown, a malaprop-prone catcher who looked as if he were put together with spare parts. But Yogi was not only a cuddly pitchman for insurance, beer and chocolate milk, an inspiration for a certain cartoon bear, and a stand-up guy beloved by teammates; he was, the film argues, one of the best baseball players who ever lived.

ORLANDO, Fla., Dec 8 (Reuters) - When Yogi Berra famously said it's difficult to make forecasts, especially about the future, he probably didn't have financial market analysts in mind. However, this is precisely where clients might reasonably expect their well-remunerated investment bank and fund management experts to earn their corn. The median earnings growth forecast was just under 8%. Right now the S&P 500 is below 4000, down 17% year to date and on course for one of its biggest falls in 80 years. A Reuters poll of 41 strategists published on Nov. 29 showed that the S&P 500 will end next year at 4200, up 6.8% from Wednesday's close.

☆ Donald Trump will testify in New York court to defend his business empire
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( Laura Italiano | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Donald Trump will testify in person in 2023 to defend his company against New York's $250 million lawsuit. He's the lead defendant in the state attorney general's suit, which seeks to bar him from doing business in the state. The revelation came on Tuesday as lawyers for Trump and the attorney general's office clashed heatedly in court over setting a trial schedule. "Donald Trump and entities would like to have a jury trial," Habba told the judge. "I don't know why I, my staff, not to mention the attorney general's staff need to go through this all against.

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